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They couldn’t look down their noses at me until they figured out which rung of the ladder I stood on.

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Doesn’t anyone around here know how to use a blasted ink pen?

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If demons really did bargain for souls, I would have sold mine to eat that porridge every day.

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He swiveled the glass lens out from its case, held it up to the light of the window, and began his morning ritual.

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I could tell from the thickness of the paper that it was from someone important.

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Captained by the heroes of the Longest War, these ships shall sail for all corners of the globe to claim new lands in Her name.

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One hundred thousand leks!

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No one had ever seen these lands, but they must have been a paradise, because the dragons never came back.

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Maybe more people believed in bedtime stories than I knew.

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The Tail Is the Teeth.

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It meant that the end was connected to the beginning.

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I braced my shoulder against the manhole, reached my hand deep into the crevice, and pulled out the square candy tin that held my money.

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He must have heard the jingle of money in my pocket.

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Now the War’s over, Navy battle armor brings in a real nice price on the shadow market.

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Your daughter’s the greatest forgery artist the Fens has ever known.

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I could copy it if I had a sample, but it’s too complicated to just make it up.

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I would find a way to leave it all behind, even if it meant I had to bite off my own tail to do it.

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With this kind of money, I could get you a lineal.

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He picked it up too and held both letters side by side.

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Without looking away from me, he took the golden eyeglass from his pocket and held it up between us.

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I did everything short of begging on my knees to ask for a position on that southbound ship.

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The tremor began almost a year ago, before you started working for me.

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It would bring so much honor to the family to have me be a part of such an important mission.

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But you’re not leaving this room till you tell me what this key unlocks.

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I’d found this secret hole months ago, never dreaming I’d have to use it to escape my own father.

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Everyone was down at the seaside to watch the ships depart.

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I went on tossing the buns until they were gone, then dropped the basket.

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You’d give me all this money just to let you get on that ship?

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I didn’t know what made me feel worse: my pathetic situation or the seasickness.

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Sailors scurried around each other, pulling ropes and tying them off.

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In every direction, there was only sea and sky, both a shade of bright, glittering blue.

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The last time I had seen him he was wearing a cap, but I knew without a doubt that he was the same boy who had followed me that night in the Fens.

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Not only did I have no future to look forward to after our journey’s end; now my very place on the expedition was in danger.

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Whoever had loaded his crates onto the ship had jumbled them all up, and he was afraid that some of his more precious items were missing.

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You draw them on silk, using a pen dipped in mottle fish ink so that it won’t smudge.

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Do you think they drew this because they saw a dragon there?

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Sight the sun and measure the angle using the scale on the side.

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The salt that had crusted there rubbed onto the black silk of her sleeve, but she didn’t seem to care.

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This is a Lineal of Honor, given out by the Queen herself for ‘acts of great bravery.’

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She winked and cupped a hand under her bob of thick hair, and then she left me, her jacket fluttering behind her like a cape.

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My officers have discovered a thief on board.

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Now the crew will be afraid of her, but they won’t respect her.

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He had long ago used up all his medicine for his hand tremor, and he needed me to help him draw daily charts and write notes for the captain.

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But how do you chart a course for somewhere no one had ever been, sir?

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I shot my hand into my pocket and grabbed a thin wrist.

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I picked out a food stand selling golden rice with nuts and ginger cradled in bowls made from carved-out pineapples.

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There was one more paragraph that the newspaper hadn’t printed.

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Talk to him and see if you can get him to at least be open-minded about searching for the Sunderlands.

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I lay in my hammock, trying to make sense of everything I had just learned but I was distracted by the scratching sounds from the wall behind my head.

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I hurried to the rope coils and found the boy crouched like a mongoose ready to strike.

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At that moment, the rope pulled taut and yanked his feet out from under him.

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I could now add “harboring a stowaway” to my long list of accomplishments.

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Everyone always thinks us sailors don’t know what’s going on.

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Here, take the scope and focus on that island with the bay.

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Instead of concentrating on making my lines perfect, I let my pen track my gaze as I took in every jutting rock and stretch of beach.

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He floated silently over the dark deck, timing his footsteps with the dip and rise of the ship.

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We crouched, silent at first, until we were sure the waves splashing against the hull would drown out our whispers.

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I guessed he must be talking about when our ship would arrive at the fiftieth parallel.

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If I could get hold of those documents and go through them, maybe I could gather enough evidence to make him come around.

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I was getting used to reading records like this, but the first time, it had come as quite a shock.

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The only thing that steadied me was looking at the chart I’d made.

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But beneath them flew another banner: yellow with a black spot.

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I trust you not to tell anyone my treasonous thoughts.

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We have the same father but different mothers.

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We will be celebrated and sought after, and I’ll finally prove that I’m deserving of my father’s esteem.

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This is going to change everything, miss, I said as she closed the door to her cabin behind me.

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My breath stopped in my throat as a large dark hump rose out of the water and rolled back down into the coming wave.

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If I’m right, we will find the southern waters to be an absolute paradise, full of animals feasting on the bounty that summer brings.

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If you’re so upset by it, then what are you doing here, sir?

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It did sound like our hull was scraping up against sand or gravel.

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Not many people would put themselves at risk to catch a disease such as this one.

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He knew the Sunderlands existed, and he was deliberately steering us away from them.

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Do you know what it looks like for one country to take over another?

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If we had a letter written in the captain’s own hand and signed by her, the crew would have to obey that just as sure as if the order had come from her own lips.

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Shocked whispers rippled through the officers, but the crew smiled.

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Who will guide the ship to her destination?

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He took my hand and pressed the case into my palm.

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How can you see what you need to see without a good eyeglass?

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But when I got back to my cabin that night, I found him swinging in my hammock, eating my ginger cookie rations.

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Waves this large would sink us in minutes.

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Why haven’t we shortened sail?

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Then we are truly lost, she whispered.

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I haven’t swallowed those vile drops in days.

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What is the real story, ma’am?

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She has a terrible taste for gambling, and I have given that girl a fortune to pay off her debts.

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I made up the story that she had saved my life because I hoped that having a lineal of her own would satisfy her.

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She unclasped her top button, and I saw that she wore another necklace underneath the lineal: a white shell with dark red markings strung on a piece of twine.

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And his eyes were a color you rarely saw in Mangkon: green and brown swirled together, like a fern stem.

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It was a shiny white scallop shell the size of a half-lek coin, with a leather cord strung through a hole at the top.

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I was desperate to get back to my son, but the War always kept me away.

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An empire of cowards and thieves - that’s what we are.

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We slid right through the open cabin door just as thousands of gallons of water crashed behind us.

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Get below and get that fire out!

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I started to call out again when I saw one of them reach back and punch the other in the stomach.

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In the flicker of lightning, I saw the unmistakable shimmer of scales.

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We’ve got the stench of mutiny on us thick.

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I vowed that one day I’d pay back that man who’d saved my life.

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You don’t know what happens to people’s minds when they get this far from home.

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You set a good course.

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Beyond it lay another slightly larger island, and beyond that hovered that dim shadow of an even larger one.

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But the seawater was icy cold, a reminder of how close we were to the southern pole.

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He’d taught me how to make a shelter out of a crate and pack it all around with paper trash to hold the heat in.

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And something I had never paid attention to before: the left edge of the silk was ragged and frayed, as if someone had ripped a larger piece of fabric in half.

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I thought while I was there, I might as well pick her pockets.

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I have it to me because despite how badly I’d betrayed him, he still cared for me.

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There’s not a soul on earth who could find us now.

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Even if I knew which way we were going, I couldn’t row another stroke.

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He’d wanted it so badly that he would have done anything to give it to me.

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I never thought I would find myself listening to Dumpling, but our only chance was to follow this dragon home.

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The Slake stared at me through her haw.

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Lush trees covered the slopes that cradled our black sandy beach.

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If anyone had ever come to a place this bountiful before, surely they would never have left.

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Pressing her stubby clawed feet against the cave floor, she dragged herself in a tighter circle around her nest.

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That’s how a small girl brings a big man down.

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A steady wind whipped up from the south, filling our sails and pushing us away from the Great Southern Continent so fast that we barely had time to get one last glimpse before it vanished in the mist.

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When they hauled the boat in, they were shocked to find a woman inside, clinging to life.

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It just wasn’t the whole story.

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